The Washington critic., 1887-06-30
SPORTS OF TIE SEASON.


Yesterdays game at Plttsburg demon.
stTatCd the great difference In value be-
tween Shaw aud Whitney as pitchers. Tho
latter pitched half the game nearly and
one run was made on him shaw was pat
Ia ard five runs were made aud the game
was oil but lost. Dlsagrceabe as the lirt
IL, II must he confessed that shaw ls in TOO
fact company. Whether he Is hampcTed by
the new pitching rules, or whatever tue
'.'" Il, II Is apparent that ne cannot be
7on. How badly Whitney was Iu-
Iu er1ar''s rot yet been ascer-
tain. noped that the injury
Is not II It ls, goodbye to any
game at 40. Boston plays three
we shou'j come nearer sixth place De.
tioit n.ydo only seven hits on Bulllnton
aLd the phlllles only five oil Twltchell, the
Zine. consequently Ven after q see saw
contest
Comparing ,ho Pitchers.
Tnr CW1l- has received the following
commune TO '!
"Tl, following Is Pitcher O'Day's record
th' cason with the Washington Club:
Gimes played as pitcher o
h1mes won n.,.,.......,,,,.,......, ..,."......".." /
uhnes
Earned runs by nts...............,."...A
Average per game (uearlyl yl,,",......,,.,.... 3
"ln view OF this, would II not be well
for the management to permanently retire
Mr.. O'Day The almost universal opinion
Of the Washington public demands It.
Compare his record with that OF Pitcher
Whitney:
Games played as pitcher. Is
uuthe5 Mou,','',,, ,,,,,'.,..,.,...',..".,...... 5
nhnes lost.,.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" Z
Earned rims lN nnnnlpI.tg
average per game.......... .........,,..."..",,".2.21
"Whitney has pitched fifteen games,
O'Day nine. Their relative rank among
Thirty League pitchers is six and twenty
six. respectively. The earned runs agaius,
O'Day are forty-one per cent, In excess OF
those against Whitney. Gilmore and
Shew's records are much better than
O'Day's, but way below Whitney's. He is
the "starn pitcher OF the club, and 1t would
be money to the management and crafty.
lrg to local patrons and enthusiasts, to have
him In the "boxn ut least In every other
game, aud, II necessary, pay him accord
ingly. Keefe Of New York, Clarkson of
Chicago, Calvin OF Pittsburg and Fergu-
son Of Philadelphia are doing the bulk OF
the work for their respective clubs, and
doing 1t well, too. Whitney could do the
same for us. VIII the management take
the hint, and thus take the club out of the
NNfNhth paw " hhC hitu NJ lcAct
Baseball Personalities.
O'Day said after Tuesdays game. "Yes,
was trimmed. Men bit the ball yesterday
who did not know 1t; | struck Kuehne out
three times out OF five times at the bat at
Washington and yesterday he hit the same
ball hand. Its strange thing"
The Plttsburg Chronicle Telegraph says:
"Gilmore, reports to the contrary, is badly
broken up over that Hartford breach. of
promise story. Manager Gafrney said that
he feared the worry would effect his work.
Ills wife, resident Of Baltimore, is lying
very III from an attack Of nervous prostra-
tion brought on by the affair.
Richardson, Detrolt's great outfelder, has
made but one error in Is games.
Chris Won der Abe says that one thing he
regrets now is that he ever voted to take
Burns of Baltimore of the black list.
Myers is laid of with spiked foot re-
ceived In Mondays game.
The Boston Post inquiries: "What she'll
II profit baseball club II 1t pays $4,000
fora Kelly and then can't beat the tail
enders 7"
Arundel OF the indianapolis Club has
been sent to the workhouse for assaultlng a
woman.
Anson's batting average, June 25, In
elusive, was .3i7, actual hits and no bases
on balls; Brouthers, .35l; Dunlap, 1913;
.4lO; Ewing, .3l7; Connor, 1922; Ward, 1881;
Gore, .274; O'Rourke, Ell; Tiernan, 1897;
Denny, .3il; Glasscock, .29l; Andrus, POI.
1t is asserted that In the New York-D
troit game on Monday Gore said distinctly,
after be was hurt, "Pm all right now.n
Ward paid no attention, but claimed the
right to substitute another.
1t will be remembered that In one of the
games Washington played with Detroit a
fly was knocked TO Shindle, who mufred 1t
and threw to second, whence II was thrown
to first and double play made. Gaffney
claimed that the batsman alone was out as
the fly was Intentionally mufred, The um-
pire decided otherwise. The case was sub
mitted to President Young, who says: "If
the ball fairly struck the flelder's hands,
the batter should have been declared out
and no double play allowed; In such cases
1t is extremely difficult to Judge whether
the ball is purposely or accidentally muffed,
ard In all cases where the inducement is so
great to mun the ball, my instructions to
umpires have always uniformly been, where
the ball comes In contact with the helders
hands, to declare the batter out on the fly."
The Peabodys defeated the Pension Office
nine yesterday at Capitol Park by the fol.
lowing score:
Peabody. ............ 90 0 o-lC
PensionOffice. e......... . 0 0 2 2-li
Observation-Disclosures 1s; Pension once, TO-
ErIors-Peabodys, 10; Pension Office, o. Called
ut the end of the eighth inning on account OF
darkness.
fremont Broken Down.
New YORK, June 30.-Philip Dwyer, the
well-lnown turfmau, says that fremont,
the famous race-horse, has broken down
and has been withdrawn from the turf Mr.,
Dwyer will not tell what Is the matter with
the horse. A trainer, who has seen Ire
mont at work In his trials, says that the
tendons In the foreleg, the ankle Of which
was troubled with scratches In the spring
had weakened so MS to cause q bowed leg
and that II the horse was kept at work he
would break down altogether.
DoS'T forget the auction sale of lots a
Hyattsville on Thursday.